Ricardo Padrón studies the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly questions of empire, space, and cartography. His recently book, The Indies of the Setting Sun: How Early Modern Spain Mapped the Far East as the Transpacific West (Chicago 2020) examines the place of Pacific and Asia in the Spanish concept of...
Roberto Ignacio Díaz is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He researches Latin American literary and cultural history with a focus on transatlantic relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has previously written on multilingualism in Spanish American literature and on the prose of Jorge Luis Borges.
Chloe Ireton is a Lecturer in the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500-1800 at University College London and is currently also a British Academy Wolfson Fellow (2023-2026). Ireton's first monograph, Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2025) is an intellectual history exploring how free and...
Amanda Wunder will speak about her latest book, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV, which reconstructs the life and work of Mateo Aguado, a court tailor who dressed many of Diego Velázquez's most famous portrait sitters. None of the garments that Aguado made survive today, but...
Note: This event is RSVP only Please join us in honoring the 2025 UCLA Spanish & Portuguese Distinguished Alumni Lecture Award recipient Dr. Jason Rothman, Professor at Lancaster University, U.K.. The 2025 Distinguished Alumni Lecture topic is “Behavioral and Brain Evidence for the Systematicity of Individual Differences in Heritage Language Bilingualism." Heritage Language (HL) bilinguals—native...
Widlore Mérancourt is the editor in chief of Ayibopost and a Haitian journalist who has written extensively on gang violence and systemic corruption in Haiti. Laurent Dubois (Professor of the History & Principles of Democracy and Professor of History, University of Virginia) is a leading scholar of the Haitian Revolution who is currently Academic Director...
Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/chd4NGozQ7SRYZGIjGws9A Charlie Geyer (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He specializes in the comparative study of Latin American and US Latinx literatures and cultures, with a focus on Border Studies and the aesthetics and politics of bordering...
Talk also available by Zoom: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/YIcoCq72Q6OxB6KRkDOvyA Alejandro Castro tiene un doctorado en Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Nueva York. También es Licenciado en Artes por la Universidad Central de Venezuela y Magíster en Literatura Latinoamericana por la Universidad Simón Bolívar. Ha sido profesor tanto de la Escuela de Artes, como de la Escuela...
Glendy Agustin es una investigadora, activista y periodista comunitaria maya mam radicada en Comitancillo (San Marcos), en el occidente de Guatemala. Ha realizado múltiples investigaciones centradas en las tradiciones, la medicina, la espiritualidad, la vestimenta y la gastronomía de su comunidad maya mam. Asimismo, ha participado como activista en proyectos de rescate de la memoria...
Born in Colombia and raised in Mexico City, Rodrigo García is a celebrated award-winning director, producer and writer. A consistent figure in independent film over the last 20 years, Rodrigo has directed the multiple Academy Award®-nominated film, Albert Nobbs, starring Glenn Close, Mother and Child, starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Samuel L. Jackson, Apple...